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Lydie Koblan-Huberson Industrial relations · Diversity at work
About

Academic rigour, with an HR practitioner's field experience.


I hold a master's in administrative sciences from Université Laval and am a chartered administrator (Adm.A.). I work on labour relations and organizational dynamics in post-colonial societies, after more than twelve years leading human resources.

As a doctoral candidate in Université Laval's Industrial Relations department, my thesis addresses race and diversity management at work: the structural barriers and levers shaping Black women's access to executive public-sector roles in France and Quebec.

My work also examines the sexual and sexist dimensions of the appropriation of women's bodies under slavery and colonization — a central pillar of Western male domination whose stereotypes still structure working life.

A researcher and research coordinator at Université de Sherbrooke, I work with universities, public institutions and companies that want defensible analysis and applicable solutions rather than a compliance veneer.

Black women Public sector Executive leadership Structural barriers Equity and inclusion Intersectionality Comparative analysis Systemic change

Track record

2025

Associate Fellow

Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

2024

Documentary in production

Black women and the Quebec labour market

2021

CRIMT competition award

Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work

2020

Doctoral studies begin

Industrial Relations, Université Laval

2017

Prix Territoria, French Senate

Innovation in human-resource management in local government, under the chairmanship of Jacques Mézard, Minister for Territorial Cohesion

2017

Innovation in Government: The New Normal

OPSI / OECD, Paris